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this means that germany had to pay the allied countries. reparations are/is essentially payment for something that they have done wrong, so after ww1, germany was forced to pay reparations so they could replenish the allied countries resources' that they had lost during the war.

answer-the island had airfields that the u.s. military needed.

it foreshadows the theme of the paragraph and hints the topic that will be discussed in the paragraph!

for this case we have the following equation:

we apply distributive property to the terms within parentheses.

subtracting 2 on both sides of the equation: